{"id":1606,"date":"2013-02-19T05:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2013-02-19T05:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:23:41","slug":"greed-and-abundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/02\/19\/greed-and-abundance\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed and abundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1525\" alt=\"Lent 2013 Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2013\/02\/Lent-2013-Cover.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993366\">\u00a0 2 Peter 2:4-21<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhere do you draw strength from to keep going on the right path when many alluring distractions and obstructions are in your way?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Great and wonderful guide of our lives, lead us on the right life path. Stomp out diversions that make us stray from our walk with you and give us the courage to do so ourselves when need be. Thank you, God, for carrying us through the sad times, cheering us on through the good times, and dragging us through the stubborn times.<br \/>\nAmen<\/p>\n<p>~ Rachel Witkovsky, National Junior High Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><em><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s L<\/em>enten devotional, <span style=\"color: #993366\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=practice+of+paying&amp;Search.x=8&amp;Search.y=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">The Practice of Paying Attention<\/span><\/a><\/span>, written by Dana Cassell, Minister of Youth Formation at the Manassas Church of the Brethren. <em>(Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993366\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0in print and E-Book formats)\u00a0<em>Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Walt&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 2 Peter 2:4-21 Question for reflection: Where do you draw strength from to keep going on the right path when many alluring distractions and obstructions are in your way? Prayer for the day: Great and wonderful guide of our lives, lead us on the right life path. Stomp out diversions that make us stray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[201,284,338,687,921,1108,1109],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-carry","tag-courage","tag-diversion","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-stray","tag-strength"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}